The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories

Acknowledgements Introduction ONE: THE GOLDEN ERA The Third Person Henry James The Presence by the Fire H. G. Wells How It Happened Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Ghostly Duel Jack London The Hand Theodore Dreiser The Ghost of Down Hill Edgar Wallace Honeysuckle Cottage P. G. Wodehouse The Old Dark House J. B. Priestley Sophy Mason Comes Back E. M. Delafield In a Glass Darkly Agatha Christie TWO: THE PHANTOM ARMY The Bowmen Arthur Machen The Other Side of the Medal Stella Gibbons Three Lines of Old French A. Merritt The Lusitania Waits Alfred Noyes Vengeance Is Mine Algernon Blackwood We Are the Dead Henry Kuttner The Escort Daphne du Maurier The Elf in Algiers John Steinbeck The Mirror in Room 22 James Hadley Chase Is There a Life Beyond the Gravy? Stevie Smith THREE: THE MODERN TRADITION Sloane Square Pamela Hansford Johnson The Leaf-Sweeper Muriel Spark At the Chalet Lartrec Winston Graham The Love of a Good Woman William Trevor The Haunting of Shawley Rectory Ruth Rendell Voices in the Coalbin Mary Higgins Clark A Good Sound Marriage Fay Weldon A Self-Possessed Woman Julian Barnes A Programmed Christmas Carol John Mortimer A Figment in Time Peter Haining